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....Sarah Deaves, private banking director at Lloyds Bank, said: “For many people, their overall wealth is locked up in assets that they hold for the longer term like their homes, their pensions, ISAs and investments. With rising house and equity prices, net worth has increased substantially in the past decade, growing by £143,000 per household on average. ...
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....But last week, Boris Collardi, Julius Bär’s chief executive, said Britain presented an opportunity for the bank. “The typical high net worth individual in the UK is feeling very uncertain about the future in terms of assets, in terms of currency risk, in terms of diversification and in terms of how they should be positioning themselves in this market,” Collardi said. ...
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....Sarah Deaves, private banking director at Lloyds Bank, said: “For many people, their overall wealth is locked up in assets that they hold for the longer term like their homes, their pensions, ISAs and investments. With rising house and equity prices, net worth has increased substantially in the past decade, growing by £143,000 per household on average. ...

....But last week, Boris Collardi, Julius Bär’s chief executive, said Britain presented an opportunity for the bank. “The typical high net worth individual in the UK is feeling very uncertain about the future in terms of assets, in terms of currency risk, in terms of diversification and in terms of how they should be positioning themselves in this market,” Collardi said. ...

....“They have seen how much others have made from student housing and want to join them,” Pullan said. “More than 70% of investment is coming from overseas buyers, from sovereign wealth funds and ultra high net worth individuals [people with investable assets of more than $30m] and private equity. ...

....The Fortescue Metals chairman has a history of philanthropy. "I have been very fortunate, with my wife, Nicola, to be able to accumulate capital, and then as soon as we can to commence giving it away," said Mr Forrest, who is estimated by Forbes to have a net worth of almost A$5. ...

...."It's time for our public policies to catch up with what our families deserve and what our values demand," she said. Ms Sandberg, an influential voice in corporate America, is one of the wealthiest American women with a net worth estimated at $1. ...

....“Confidentiality clauses have been in crew contracts for a long time; [they have] got to remember who they are looking after,” William MacLachlan, a senior associate at law firm Holman Fenwick Willan, said. “[The owners] will be high net worth individuals and they could be very much in the public domain and very sensitive, they don’t need the crew facilitating the release of photos whether accidentally or otherwise. ...

.... The vast majority of Americans work because their survival depends on a wage. By contrast, Mayer, Immelt and Cook could retire tomorrow and still live very comfortably for the rest of their lives, with plenty left over to pass on to the next generation – their collective net worth is almost $1. ...

.... On Instagram they include: . The exact net worth or rate per post is hard to pin down, but be prepared to fork out several thousand dollars, or even tens of thousands, if you want your product featured in one of their Instagram posts. ...

....Global markets have hit record highs due to the so-called “Trump bump” following Trump’s election, with the Dow Jones soaring above 20,000 points for the first time and the UK’s FTSE 100 closing at a record 7,415 points last week. The fall in Trump’s net worth is due to a drop in the value of office space in Midtown Manhattan, where the president owns about 10 buildings. ...

.... He sold Grosvenor Gardens with planning permission only, leaving others to redevelop the property and collect larger rewards from selling individual apartments. The Candys say Holyoake is a liar and a fraudster, who put none of his own money into the project, and who overstated his net worth in order to deceive them. ...

....But since Mr Lee's father suffered a heart attack in 2014, he has been considered de facto boss of the entire Samsung group. Forbes ranks the divorced father-of-two as the 40th most powerful person in the world, with a net worth of almost $6bn (£4. ...

.... Also available for £40,000 a week is a seven-bedroom house in Mayfair, which features a cinema, swimming pool and underground garage. Tom Smith, head of super-prime lettings at estate agent Knight Frank, said there was so much demand for serviced luxury apartments that it had become a challenge to find enough to show to the firm’s “ultra-high net worth, incredibly wealthy” clients. ...

....Warren Buffett is perhaps the world’s most respected and successful investor. Often dubbed the “Sage of Omaha” due to his uncanny ability to spot lucrative investments and homespun wisdom, the 86-year-old is the world’s third richest man, with an estimated net worth of $60. ...

....Trump’s choice of Mnuchin stood at odds with his rhetoric on the campaign trail, where he repeatedly decried Hillary Clinton for giving paid speeches to Wall Street while vowing to lift up working-class Americans. Mnuchin, whose net worth is estimated at $400m will join the wealthiest cabinet in US history. ...

....The report, by the research firm Wealth-X, found that as private jet travel has become more accessible and faster internet speeds have made working from the beach or ski lodge more practical, the world’s wealthiest people are buying up multiple homes. More than 10% of the world’s 212,625 ultra-high net worth individuals – defined as those with assets of at least $30m (£24m) – own five or more properties in addition to their main home, the research found. ...

....“We appreciate the fact that the merits of this case can now be determined without the need for detention,” Samsung said in a statement on Thursday. The main opposition Democratic party accused the court of showing undue leniency to Samsung and its heir apparent, whose net worth is estimated at US$5. ...

....Senator Orrin Hatch, the finance committee chairman, said nominees “will undergo the same bipartisan vetting process as the nominees from previous administrations” and will not progress to a public hearing until the committee has reviewed the past three years of a nominee’s tax returns. The multi-page questionnaire asks nominees to list all jobs held since college, all business relationships, political activities and contributions, any legal or ethics conflicts and a calculation of the nominee and their family’s net worth. ...

....HMRC is chasing almost £2bn that is potentially owed in taxes by the UK's richest people, according to the public spending watchdog. The National Audit Office said HMRC's specialist unit recovered £416m in 2015 from 6,500 "high net worth individuals" with wealth of more than £20m. ...

....The researcher added that international buyers of luxury high rise apartments did not want social housing on site and developers did everything to shift social tenants elsewhere. London is home to around 4,900 “ultra-high net worth” individuals, with assets of at least £23m, a rise of 39% in the past decade, according to the latest wealth report by estate agents Knight Frank. ...

....On Thursday, Trump's special counsel, Michael Cohen, told CNN that he would not allow Trump to release them until the audits were complete. Critics, including 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and other fellow Republicans, have said Trump's refusal raises questions about his net worth, his charitable contributions, his business dealings and various other ties, including with Russia. ...

.... Meanwhile the price of vintage Ferraris, of prime London property, of gold and diamonds all hit the stratosphere. Hence the grotesque spectacle of the net worth of the wealthiest growing far faster after the crash than before it. ...

....In April this newspaper reported that resentment to build among middle-class savers who were for the first time being forced to pay “death duties” because of their inflated house prices. Alan Miller, campaigner and director at SVM Private, a financial firm for high-net worth individuals, said: "The new IHT allowance is unfair as it penalises some people for dying before others. ...

....The Asia-Pacific region has for the first time overtaken North America both for the number of rich people and the wealth held by them, according to the annual world wealth report from consultancy firm Capgemini. Around the world, the number of “high net worth individuals” (HNWIs) – defined as those with investable assets of at least $1m (£675,000) excluding their main home, art collection, vintage sports cars and other collectibles – rose nearly 5% in 2015 to 15. ...

....That could rise to $100 trillion by 2025, Capgemini said. Asia's growth in high net worth individuals - defined as having $1 million in assets - came despite slowing economic growth in China and a weak Japanese economy. ...

....The 61-year-old leader has been nominated as the globe's number one power woman for the sixth year running. The power chart takes into account the person's money and net worth, media presence, 'sphere of influence' both within their field and outside it. ...

.... Rarely are we treated to the kind of fall from grace that we’ve witnessed with Holmes, founder of Theranos, a blood-testing startup that took Silicon Valley, and some sections of the financial press, by storm. Forbes’ previous estimates pegged Holmes’s net worth at a cool $4. ...

....Related: Forbes investigates after 'contributor' asks PR for £300 to write online profile. US business magazine Forbes, which monitors the world’s wealthiest individuals and publishes a rich list, has revised the net worth of the woman it named as America’s richest self-made woman last year from $4. ...

....”. His view was backed by Craig Hughes, tax director in offshore services at Menzies accountancy firm, who said the policy “could impact investment in UK property” and argued that “high net worth, high profile individuals do have a right to a private life”. ...

....Paul Noble, tax director at Pinsent Masons, said: “Returns from investigations have been healthy this year, and HMRC will likely want to build on this success. High net worth individuals and other wealthy taxpayers are likely to face further scrutiny as a result – both here and abroad. ...

....There are around 15. 5m bitcoins currently in circulation, including the million or so reportedly owned by Nakamoto, giving the founder – or founders – a net worth of around US$450m, at the current price. ...

....Many investors rushed through purchases ahead of the deadline to spare themselves the higher rate of tax, with estate agents in expensive parts of the country reporting buyers willing to pay more to solicitors to ensure deals were completed in time. Research by Bower Private Clients, which arranges loans for high net worth customers, found that 29% of lawyers were planning to use property to fund their retirement, either drawing money from their main home or investing in buy-to-let. ...

.... “They decided to take more control and create a structure which they felt was … entirely doing their bidding,” he added. Karen Clark, managing director of the Family Office Exchange, which represents 450 single-family offices worldwide with median assets of just more than $500m, said the rise was also spurred by the subsequent spike in the number of ultra-high net worth individuals, especially since the economic upturn from 2011-12. ...

....Essex-based BPC, which focuses on London and the south-east, hopes to tap into the need for more specialist advice by recruiting 10 advisers from private banks such as Coutts, and offers specialist underwriting for rich clients. The company says it is the first to launch a high net worth equity release advice business. ...

....However, it doesn’t seem likely that West is really in dire financial straits, tweet storm notwithstanding. Most estimates peg his personal net worth at around $147m; certainly, even if he’s under a strain after foolish spending (hiring an entire orchestra to propose to his now-wife, Kim Kardashian, at AT&T Park in San Francisco), it’s still going to be north of $100m. ...

....The pair are talking in a small meeting room about the 14 or so private shareholders who have backed his company. Many of them are high net worth individuals based locally and a well-known figure from the football industry is advising on future finance. ...

....Pichai, who became Google’s CEO in October following its reorganisation into holding company Alphabet, was handed 273,328 shares, according to a company filing, worth $199m when they were awarded. The new shares takes the value of Pichai’s Alphabet holdings to roughly $650m – or 14,440 times the $45,000 median net worth of US citizens as calculated by Credit Suisse. ...

.... Ingenious Asset Management currently manages £1. 8bn of investments on behalf of high net worth clients and is part of Ingenious, the company best-known for its controversial film partnership schemes. ...

.... Becoming a non-dom is no longer a viable long-term tax minimisation solution for the world’s most prosperous people. Some will still want to move here but there is no doubt this will significantly reduce the inflow of high net worth individuals. ...

....The Klontz Money Script Inventory (KMSI) was developed as a tool to help people uncover their money scripts. It has been researched extensively, and scores on the KMSI have been found to be associated with income, net worth, credit card debt, socioeconomic status in childhood, financial behaviour and other aspects of financial health. ...

....In the past five years Rinehart has topped Forbes Australia’s rich list but this year she has been unseated by another woman, the reclusive US-born heiress and longtime Australian resident Blair Parry-Okeden. Parry-Okeden’s net worth of $12. ...

.... They conclude that London has become one of a handful of international havens for the very wealthy, thanks to central and local government kowtowing to their demands. The deference of the UK government has facilitated the construction and extension of mega-mansions for the several thousand ultra-high net worth individuals, with assets of at least £21m, and the 80 billionaires who now live in London. ...

.... Iranians celebrate in the street of Tehran, Iran, after nuclear talks between Iran and World powers ended in Lausanne, Switzerland Photo: EPA. Statistics from New World Wealth show there are 32,000 high net worth individuals (HNWIs) in Iran, including 65 individuals worth over $100m (£71m) and four billionaires. ...

....However the deal was split, it would have certainly helped Mr Bowie's finances. The latest estimate of Bowie's net worth by the Sunday Times Rich List is £135m - putting him him joint 707th on the list, equal with pop star Robbie Williams, and Conservative Party co-treasurer Lord Lupton. ...

....The son of a Communist Red Army captain, Wang was a soldier before he founded Wanda in the 1980s, building it up with military discipline. Now 61, Wang is the 13th richest man on the planet according to Bloomberg’s real-time ranking, which put his net worth at $33. ...

.... . “We have agreed a memorandum of understanding with a Chinese investor to open clubs in Hong Kong and China,” Mr Blaskey said, adding that the company was already talking to a number of high net worth investors, venture capital funds and private equity companies about raising further funds to grow the business. ...

.... . "We looked at both models and have taken the best of both worlds," said Martijn de Wever, co-founder and chief executive of Force Over Mass, which invests in technology start-ups on behalf of high net worth individuals who can invest at least £25,000. ...